A vociferous section of BJP’s support base, especially those pejoratively described as “Internet Hindus”, are clearly disappointed that Arun Shourie did not make it to the cabinet. In last few weeks, Shourie’s ubiquity in TV studios and his cleverly done soundbytes on the likely contours of Modi Sarkar, delivered in […]

The Right People is a podcast series initiated by Centre Right India to highlight people who are not politicians or involved closely with professional politics. CRI talks to those who identify with centre-right politics from across the vast Right framework – economic right-wingers, libertarians, traditionalists, Swadeshi right, etc. Undoubtedly, these […]

In popular narrative, ‘Rajni versus Kamal’ battle represented a long running fault line in Tamil filmdom that supposedly pits dichotomous category of filmgoers – ‘classes’ and ‘masses’- against each other. ‘Classes’ treat Rajni movies condescendingly. Rajni’s ridiculous comic scenes and ludicrous punch lines are largely seen as insult to their […]

Given the intentional inscrutability and deliberate obfuscation that the Sangh tends to practice in its communication, it will never go on record admitting that it has a Narendra Modi problem. And this problem is quite serious given that it is bound to have an impact on its ideological trajectory and […]

Socio-economic milieu of Gujarat has provided a fertile ground for the steady onward march of rightist ideology. A multitude of factors explain this. Gujarat has a preponderance of a prosperous peasantry class that has displayed exemplary entrepreneurial skills. Facilitated by their control of political economy, this class invested its surplus […]